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Elly Varrenti is an Australian columnist, freelance writer, teacher, actress and broadcaster.

As an actress and singer she has performed with the Melbourne Theatre Company, Playbox Theatre, La Mama, Theatreworks and ABC Radio National.

In her acting career, Ms Varrenti is probably best known for her 1994 role in Heartbreak High as Irini Poulos. She also had a recurring role as Elaine Cox in the third season of Blue Heelers, and a guest role in its thirteenth and final season.

As a radio broadcaster she has worked for community radio 3RRR, ABC Melbourne and ABC Radio National.

In 2008 Penguin Books published her memoir This Is Not My Beautiful Life and a short story in the anthology How We Met.

Affirm Press published Ms Varrenti's story, Seriously funny, in the anthology of women’s writing, She’s Having a Laugh  in 2015.

As a freelance writer and columnist she has contributed to The Age, The Australian, The Australian Women’s Weekly, Mamamia, Hoopla, Daily Life, The Good Weekend, The Australian Education Union, The Big Issue and Daily Review.

She was a theatre critic for The Melbourne Times from 2007 to 2009, for The Age from 2011 to 2012, and a book critic for The Australian and The Age in 2016 and 2017.

She taught Creative Writing at Deakin University in 2014 and at theUniversity of Melbourne in 2015, 2016 and 2017.